UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS: AN APPROACH FOR THE CLINICIAN Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program, 5th Edition
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1. Distinguish the roles for and types of descriptive and inferential statistics. 2. Classify data types found in the pharmacotherapy literature as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. 3. Evaluate statistical significance using either p values or confidence intervals. 4. Judge the appropriateness of common statistical tests or techniques for a set of data. 5. Infer the reliability of trial results and conclusions based on an evaluation of statistical techniques. 6. Judge the clinical significance of statistical differences. 7. Interpret the results of correlation, regression, survival analysis, and meta-analysis in pharmacotherapy trials. 8. Design a plan to communicate statistical results to health care providers and to patients in a way that allows them to make well-informed decisions about the use of drugs.
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